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Carrier (Syracuse) competing with Japanese who build quiet air conditioners. Need 3-D CFD simulations including acoustics.
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Major aerospace company - engineers are using a network of RS6000's for large CFD simulations.
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Excellent speedup but troubled by poor O/S support for such distributed computing
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Viewed parallel computing as uninteresting
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Because for their problem, i860 node on Intel Touchstone had poor cost-performance compared to RS6000
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Teraflop machine in a submarine will allow adaptive 3-D beamforming.
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(SIMD) Signal processing (matrix algebra) combined with irregular partial differential equation solution for acoustic propagation in ocean.
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but submarine not so critical to nation these days .... (Seawolf)
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Global competition and DoD cutbacks ----> Aerospace and other manufacturing companies are typically cutting back in personnel and research ----> Hard to integrate new technologies .....
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